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Waldo Salt was the subject of a 1990 documentary Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey, which featured interviews with Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jon Voight, John Schlesinger and other collaborators and friends. The Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, first presented in 1992, is awarded at the Sundance Film Festival annually. It is determined ...
“Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter’s Journey” (1992) is an Academy Award nominated film about the life and work of American screenwriter Waldo Salt, who was blacklisted in the 1950s and later won two Academy Awards (Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen for “Coming Home” in 1978, and Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another ...
A documentary tracing the career and life of Academy Award-winning screenwriter Waldo Salt, who overcame the stigma of the 1950s blacklist to write "Midnight Cowboy," "Serpico," and "Coming Home." Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey (1990) - Turner Classic Movies
Salt was born in Los Angeles, California, to screenwriter Waldo Salt and actress Mary Davenport. [2] [3] She has a younger sister, Deborah. Her stepmother was the writer Eve Merriam. She attended the High School of Performing Arts in New York City, and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. [4]
Other articles where Waldo Salt is discussed: John Schlesinger: Films of the late 1960s and ’70s: Waldo Salt adapted James Leo Herlihy’s novel about a pair of small-time hustlers in New York—gimpy Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman) and Texas transplant Joe Buck (Jon Voight)—who unexpectedly bond in the course of living their marginal existences. Schlesinger’s gritty depiction of the urban ...
Waldo Salt was one of the many people blacklisted in Hollywood during the Red Scare, but unlike others, Salt recovered triumphantly. He wrote his first scripts in the late 1930s (MGM contract writer, 1936-42) and also served as a civilian consultant to the Office of War Information from 1942- 1945 before being blacklisted in 1951 after refusing to testify before HUAC.
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey is a 1990 American documentary film directed by Eugene Corr. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. [3] The film was screened at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival [4] and is a part of the PBS American Masters series of documentary films.
